Web Hosting Providers

Web Hosting Providers - 02/17/1003:04 PM

Starting to do some home work for moving my new forum from shared server space. Current space doing good for now, but anticipating that will not continue with growth of the board.

What I am looking is feedback on what host you are using, plan and cost. Level of your ability (like myself, I know just about enough to be dangerous when it comes to server management stuff), Customer service experience, length of time with that company.

Preference of Unix, Windows, etc. the good and bad of each.

If you have your own company, it might be better if you PM me so no one can say you are using this forum to build your business. I don't want to start any peeing matches just starting to do some research and making plans.

Re: Web Hosting Providers - 02/18/1011:00 PM

Re: Web Hosting Providers - 02/18/1011:06 PM

I am guilty of asking the same question here.Problem comes from some people have a bad/good experience from the same host. Depending on what plan you have selected.So all I can say is do some research.

Re: Web Hosting Providers - 02/19/1012:27 AM

I know exactly how you feel. I have had to many bad experiences and was told one that if I can do better then go a head and do it.

So to make a long story short...

In 1999 I started out on my own and built my own rack and got a small net block and such and everything. Now I host all my own everything. I buy bulk bandwidth and do everything from the DNS servers down to the web, email, and such here in my house.

Re: Web Hosting Providers - 02/27/1001:40 AM

We've been on Dreamhost since 2001 and besides a few hiccups have been excellent. Their control panel is top notch. Our forum is pretty busy with an enormous MySQL DB and I host a few other sites as well on our account, and we were on a standard shared account until this summer when we moved to a VPS. If you start suffering performance issues and are running multiple sites I do believe it makes more sense to have a couple shared account before moving to VPS, because our hosting bill has gone from ~$10/month to more then $60/month. VPS memory is priced per month BUT is prorated so if you move things up and down during the month you only pay for what you use, not for the most memory used for the month.